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[Eratta]

Re: attention girls: embrace your inner twitch.

Kestra said:
Just a heads up to the ladies in this thread that are into decorating--there's a great site that has everything from candles to vases in all sorts of hip and funky styles for reasonable prices. It's not the cheapest thing around, but it's not bad considering their selection.

www.jamaligarden.com

I use them a lot for wedding and event decorations and it just occurred to me that some of you ladies might find their site useful as well.

I just took a look--LOVE it! Once I see my room for the coming year, I'll start planning my decor

 

[Kestra]

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^ Yay! I'm glad someone else likes it. I've found it to be such a good resource for my work.

 

[Scatta]

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May 20 said:
Hmm...I read it as only God knows why this stuff was important to me, 'cause I sure don't anymore.

Stuff is clutter when you either don't use it or don't love it anymore. If you love the letters from your Mamaw, they are not clutter, and you don't need to let them go.

I may not need to keep ALL of them. Some of them are just cards from random occasions (like Halloween) that are just signed and nothing else. I'll probably keep more of them than I should, though.

The things I'm letting go of aren't the signs of my over sentamentality, though. I just have a collection of odd little souvineers of my life. I'll even keep the wrapper from a funeral parlor mint with a rose petal in it and the blob of wax from a special candle.

Edit And, on a completely unrelated note, I should not be allowed anywhere near a carton of blueberry cream pie ice cream. [decides to be a good girl and put what's left of it back in the freezer, but realizes she's had at least three-quarters of the thing in about three days]

 

[daeana]

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May 20 said:
"Have a happy period"?!? What man came up with that slogan?

you gotta wonder what a guy has to do wrong to be in that position.

you can send "have a happy period" e-cards from the always site. i am so not linking to it because my brain can't handle it.

 

[Peach Wookiee]

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^Those cards should be followed by...
"You are a nucking fidiot" cards.

 

[May 20]

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daeana said:

May 20 said:
"Have a happy period"?!? What man came up with that slogan?

you gotta wonder what a guy has to do wrong to be in that position.

Strange you should mention that, daeana. I received a message from an anonymous, though highly trustworthy source about this very topic. With permission from the author, check it out...

the other girls may be interested/shocked to know that the Always Have a Happy Period campaign is actually multi award-winning, and credited with a huge year on year increase in Always' market share from about under 50% to about 55%. That's a huge increase in such a competitive sector.

Leo Burnett, the ad agency responsible for the campaign, has been trading on their success with the campaign a lot in getting new business... and all the people involved with the campaign at Leo Burnett were women (and actually, so were nearly all the people approving it at Proctor & Gamble). Go figure!

So, what do you think?

 

[daeana]

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Peach Wookiee said:
^Those cards should be followed by...
"You are a nucking fidiot" cards.

May, that's interesting. i realize that part of the draw of lunapads for us is that, well, we have a happier period. i think for me, remembering how violently allergic i was to always just makes me hate it.

i remember discussing this campaign with a bunch of women in my department, and none of us liked it. ok, so it helps that we're a history/sociology department and we do a lot of gendered stuff. my friend said that the first time she took a pad off the wrapper and saw "have a happy period" under it, she loudly yelled "WHAT THE HELL!!????" and scared her kids.

 

[Peach Wookiee]

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I'd really like to talk to the women at that ad agency...
At my time of the month...
"DO I LOOK LIKE I'M HAVING A HAPPY PERIOD TO YOU?! DO I?!!"

 

[daeana]

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before this pill, i got menstrual migraines. no pad could help with that.

 

[Peach Wookiee]

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Ever since I went on ulcer meds, my period's gotten a lot easier to live with...
Before that, I got dizzy and nauseous...
Now, I don't feel so nasty...

 

[May 20]

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I never realized how much the chemicals they use in pads and tampons affected me until I switched to Lunapads, then used a single tampon so I could take the kids swimming. Oh, that was awful. Now, I do have a box of tampons for the times when my heaviest day lands on TKD day, but that doesn't happen very often -- every third month or so. Still, if I had known then what I know now, I'd have switched a long, long time ago, and my kids would have worn cloth diapers.

I know I've said it before, but I really do love my Lunapads. They do make having my period, not truly happy, but more acceptable, more natural.

 

[Ariadne]

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May 20 said:
Strange you should mention that, daeana. I received a message from an anonymous, though highly trustworthy source about this very topic. With permission from the author, check it out...

the other girls may be interested/shocked to know that the Always Have a Happy Period campaign is actually multi award-winning, and credited with a huge year on year increase in Always' market share from about under 50% to about 55%. That's a huge increase in such a competitive sector.

Leo Burnett, the ad agency responsible for the campaign, has been trading on their success with the campaign a lot in getting new business... and all the people involved with the campaign at Leo Burnett were women (and actually, so were nearly all the people approving it at Proctor & Gamble). Go figure!

So, what do you think?

The people who give out the awards must be men.

 

[daeana]

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May 20 said:
Now, I do have a box of tampons for the times when my heaviest day lands on TKD day,...

is it one of the natural brands, like natracare? i've actually found that i can use those without too much trouble (except for the part where i'm used to sponges and cups and the string just seems weird). i have a box of those around for backup, like in case i have to be out all day and i'm not sure i can/should rinse out a sponge in a public restroom (this goes more for like the mall or amusement park or something other than school).

Toresica said:
The people who give out the awards must be men.

 

[May 20]

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No, they're not. They're a regular brand that I got for really cheap (sale + coupon = happy May). I had intended to send them to one of my female soldiers, but she went home before I could ship them (Yay for her), then I decided that I didn't want to rely on strictly external protection while I was kicking and ducking on that particular heavy day. But since I'm using one for only 90 minutes every now and then, I just tough it out.

At the rate I'm using them, I have enough to last until menopause.

Toresica, I think you speak true.

 

[Scatta]

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I need to be careful what I wish for. Now I know exactly when my last period started...two days ago. Grrr...

I was trying to figure it out knowing that I was already a few days late and hoping that my first days would not be when I had to deal with the public. Of course, I started during my once-a-week hotel shift (7a-3p on Thursdays), and then had my heaviest day with the tourists in the middle of downtown Nashvegas. Grrr...

I'm glad I rarely get PMS, if ever, but I wish the first two days would stop trying to make up for it!

That is my venting for this month. Thank you. Now that I have reached day three, I will commence having a happy period.

 

[daeana]

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have a happy period, Scatta.

 

[Scatta]

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Tonight I laughed. Last night you would have died a slow and painful death.

 

[Peach Wookiee]

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I think I've got about a week before anyone wishing me a happy period might die a horrible death...

 

[Scatta]

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^Well, one of us must be on duty at all times, right?

 

[Peach Wookiee]

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^God forbid the men let down their guard...